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Posted on Thu Nov 29 05:44:35 2007 by eddiebug94601
dynamic webpages using ExifTool?

Is there a way that I can use exiftool to generate webpages?
I would like to allow visitors to a webpage to click on a photo (or link)
and to open a page with embedded tags and values from a JPG.

Eddie Dunbar
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Posted on Thu Nov 29 16:19:18 2007 by exiftool in response to 6561
Re: dynamic webpages using ExifTool?
Hi Eddie,

There are a few different ways to handle this.

One way is to use the -h option to generate an HTML table which you can insert into a web page.

Another possibility is to create a template for your web page and use the -p option to generate the complete page.

There are other ways to do this too, but these are the first two that pop into my mind.

- Phil
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Posted on Sat Dec 1 04:06:18 2007 by eddiebug94601 in response to 6566
Re: dynamic webpages using ExifTool?

Phil -

I figured out how to get -p to output to an HTML table. If I rename the tool to exiftool.pl and put it into my perl directory on a website, can the tool be used to output the data to a webpage on the fly?

Eddie Dunbar
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Posted on Sat Dec 1 15:57:29 2007 by exiftool in response to 6580
Re: dynamic webpages using ExifTool?
Hi Eddie,

Yes.

- Phil
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Posted on Sat Dec 1 23:39:39 2007 by eddiebug94601 in response to 6583
Re: dynamic webpages using ExifTool?

Please point me to a site where exiftool is already being used effectively within webpages. Thanks.

Eddie Dunbar
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Posted on Sun Dec 2 03:50:18 2007 by exiftool in response to 6584
Re: dynamic webpages using ExifTool?
I only have one or two references that are using exiftool dynamically, and I can dig them up for you on Monday. Imaging-resource.com also uses exiftool, but I think they generate the EXIF pages offline first, which is the better option if you have a heavy traffic server as they do.

- Phil
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Posted on Mon Dec 3 17:46:38 2007 by exiftool in response to 6587
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